Quotes from Peter Sellers

Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.

There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed

When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it.

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the WAR ROOM!!!

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

A person can destroy me with two words. It can just be the way they say them, the inflection.

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat

There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed.

I've had three marriages end in disaster. Lynne knew the score when she married me. It was always just a matter of time before she became the fourth ex-Mrs. Peter Sellers.

I just cannot take mediocrity. I just cannot take it on any level.

Sometimes I felt glad not to be too close to people. I might have been happier, I suppose. On the other hand, I never had much luck with people over the years.

Dad was convinced always that I was going to be a road sweeper.

To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.

Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.

It depends on whom I'm with. Sometimes I start out in my own voice, and no matter who I'm with, I take on their thing.

You'll catch your death of cold. Clouseau: Yes, yes I probably will but . . . its all part of life's rich pageantry, you kneau.

A person can destroy me with two words. It can just be the way they say them, the inflection.

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

Our relationship was one of the things that helped break up my first marriage. Miss Loren was always phoning me, and I'd go rushing all over Italy to be with her.

When I am searching for a character, I leave myself open, as does a medium. And I think that sometimes you can be inhabited by the spirit of someone who lived at some time or who was a bit like the person you are doing. And maybe they come in and use you as a chance to relive again.

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

I try to hop into a new personality as often as I can.

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.